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You want to try the look and feel of Android?

There’s a great project to port Android to x86!

They offer a LiveCD that you can try without changing anything on your PC.

Furthermore, you can even install it on your PC/Netbook!
It should already run on e.g. many Netbooks like the Asus EeePC.

I’ve installed it in a VirtualBox under Linux and it runs pretty well.

Some hints:

• The Windows key acts as HOME key
• The Context key (on the right of the right Windows key) acts as MENU key
• ESC acts as BACK key

To keep the settings in a VirtualBox permanently, you need to create two partitions:

• A data partition (500MB should be sufficient)
• A SD card partition (as large as you need)

You need to add the partition identifiers to the boot kernel line, see also:

http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto

Have fun!

Tags: Android, EeePC, Gadget

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